Federal agents are in a familiar position as they probe the computer-security breach at an Arizona firm that left credit-card data for some 40 million people open to theft: Once again, they’re playing catch-up. Faced with the vastness of cyberspace, the technical prowess of the thieves and the runaway pace of technology, finding the culprits is no simple matter. ”Unfortunately, the nature of cyber crime and identity theft is such that law enforcement will probably always be involved in a game of catch-up,” said Paul Luehr, Minneapolis-based vice president for Stroz Friedberg, a national computer forensics and consulting firm…
